Question and discussion on God's personality
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:18 am
Hey everyone, I was wanting to discuss God's personality. The main reason being, regardless of the fact that I'm a follower and have studied the Bible and apologetics and other things regarding the God of the Bible I'm still deeply wondering what God's demeanor and personality will be like when we get to meet Him in person after this life.
And it still makes good sense to ask this since we all know other fellow believers some who have great personalities, the ones who act happy, fun, kind, loving, and so on where as we also know believers who are jerks. The kind whom I know who act that way are the proud,legalistic, prudish, hateful, arrogant and so on.
And both types of believers believe the same things, both types believe in the same God, the same morals, the same plan of salvation by faith, but still have different personalities, demeanor or flavors if you will.
My question is, knowing what I just listed, what well God mostly resemble? Will he be more of the happy and fun type of a being or will He be more of the legalistic and prudish type? I mean, will His personality be more like a William Lane Craig or a Hugh Ross or be more like a Fred Phelps or a John Hagee?
As you can tell I certainly hope that He will be more of the former than the latter but to be honest I don't know. I mean I know certain things about God, that He is just, loving, all powerful and all knowing. I know that He plans on doing away with evil soon and plans on running His own kingdom for eternity but what is His personality and demeanor like?
Is it something I won't be able to know until this life is over or do you think I can somehow grasp it with further Bible study or other things? Anyways, thank you all for your time.
And it still makes good sense to ask this since we all know other fellow believers some who have great personalities, the ones who act happy, fun, kind, loving, and so on where as we also know believers who are jerks. The kind whom I know who act that way are the proud,legalistic, prudish, hateful, arrogant and so on.
And both types of believers believe the same things, both types believe in the same God, the same morals, the same plan of salvation by faith, but still have different personalities, demeanor or flavors if you will.
My question is, knowing what I just listed, what well God mostly resemble? Will he be more of the happy and fun type of a being or will He be more of the legalistic and prudish type? I mean, will His personality be more like a William Lane Craig or a Hugh Ross or be more like a Fred Phelps or a John Hagee?
As you can tell I certainly hope that He will be more of the former than the latter but to be honest I don't know. I mean I know certain things about God, that He is just, loving, all powerful and all knowing. I know that He plans on doing away with evil soon and plans on running His own kingdom for eternity but what is His personality and demeanor like?
Is it something I won't be able to know until this life is over or do you think I can somehow grasp it with further Bible study or other things? Anyways, thank you all for your time.